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Series 5: 26. Toy Phone

Nigel Havers welcomes sellers of collectibles and curiosities to the Bidding Room's home in Edinburgh, where they ply their wares to five dealers. \n\nFirst through the doors is children’s entertainer Stuart, with some apparatus to delight the dealers. His three pairs of stilts have been part of his act for the past 15 years, but the time has come for Stuart to move them on. With hopes of raising money for his local children’s hospice, he knows any bids from the dealers will need to get up to the right level if they want to make the stilts their own.\n\nNext in is Jana, hoping for a glass-half-full attitude from the dealers. Her art deco perfume bottles were inherited from an aunt who lived to be 103. Jana suspects perfume wasn’t the only thing her aunt kept in her perfume bottles, but can any of the dealers offer Jana the elixir of a good deal? \n\nThird to arrive at Edinburgh HQ is Sharon from Norwich. A set of Chinese locks, collected on Sharon’s spells abroad, are ready to find a new home – if any of the dealers can find the winning combination to unlock a deal. \n\nWillie is next with a fun toy that should make the dealers go 'yee-ha!'. The cowboy-themed ranch phone toy was found at a car boot sale, but Willie is under strict instructions to start clearing out some of his collection of curios. Hoping to achieve more than Simon’s valuation, will Willie face a stand-off with the dealers? \n\nFinally, it’s Janet, who recently went out in search of a caravan for her family’s holiday home but came back the new owner of a boat. Renovations are underway, so Janet has brought along a trio of original nautical items from the ship for the dealers to inspect – will getting a deal in be plain sailing for Janet? \n\nThe dealers today are Ian, Jon, Viki, Jacqui, Melissa and JB.

Source: BBC 1